28 February 2010
Posted in Tips and Tricks

We have started a new computer forum as the InstantPhp.Com . Because of this, We are currently reading search engine related articles .  I see most people writes their top 10 tips to improve the search engine rankings.

I'm going to try to write my own top 1o tips for Joomla 1.5

1. No black hat techniques, don’t buy into link farms that just send traffic, you will not receive converting visitors. You will need backlinks from the related web sites.

2. Ensure you have your own web site domain rather than relying on free sites and article directories like Squidoo and Hubpages. These are good but use them to drive one-way traffic to a landing page on your own web site domain.

3. Make sure that you have meta tags related to your web page content. These should contain your keywords derived from your keyword research. Use Wordtracker to find out what daily searches contain those keywords, you may need to optimize further. Checking this JED category may help you

20 January 2010
Posted in Tips and Tricks

You might have a great design but very few people are going to see it if it takes a long time to load. While I'm designing a web site , I allways check the speed of the web site.


1. Use minimum images as much as possible - The key to a fast loading web site is to minimize the use of images. Images do enhance a page but don't make 80% of your web site only images. Instead break it down as much as possible to simple HTML. If you check the popular web sites on web like Google,Ebay, Amazon etc. , they have very few images. I can suggest you to check your HTML Images and CSS images . Less images is always better for performance

2. Try out CSS Styles - Cleaning up of CSS codes can result in a highly boosted Joomla performance in terms of decreased http requests and total page size.

3. Design most of your site in HTML - As much as possible try to design your site using HTML. You can create great designs by just using HTML code. Use tables, CSS Styles and simple fonts to design your site. Minimize the use of animated gifs, Flash, bulky images etc.

23 October 2009
Posted in Tips and Tricks

As you know, We are using Virtuemart for our store on instantphp.com. Everythink is started with an e-mail that one of our users is sent.

E-mail was "Your store was not working". That was the mail. I've made a research about this issue but i did not found anythink.

This error happens , if you have international orders like us.

I've made test orders with making payment and I've tested Virtuemart with paypal sandbox mode.

At least I've found the problem reason. It was not related with Virtuemart . The exact error message was "Paypal does not allow your country of residence to ship to the country you wish to"

22 October 2009
Posted in Tips and Tricks

Last week i've made an custom work for client. The site was made with 1.5.7 . The deal was installing our popular requirement component Jobs! and checking Joomla security issues

I will try to explain the security part that i've done for that client.

1. Keep your Joomla updated: I believe this is the most important think for your web site security. As I told above, The client was using J! 1.5.7 . The first think that i've done is updating the J! version to the latest one. I've writted a few weeks ago. There is an extension to update your update joomla. 
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